AHMEDABAD: Usha, a young girl from Kheda, first suffered the humiliation of being sold to an insane man by her father for Rs 40,000 in marriage. Two and half months back, six men of her husband’s family raped and abused her and left her atop a hillock to die. Usha, 18, has survived the ordeal and landed at a destitute home in Ahmedabad seeking protection and justice.

"They are going to kill me," Usha told TOI, trembling. Her body bearing multiple stab wounds inflicted in perversion, speak volumes about the torture meted to Usha at a young age.

Usha reached the Kasturba Trust in Gandhinagar, where Sunita and Kajal, the Vadodara women whose husband meted macabre torture on them for not bearing sons, are lodged. Usha says she learnt about the Vadodara women raising their voice against violence and decided to seek justice against her violaters too.

"I was raped by six of my husband’s cousins, Bhavesh, Arvind, Ramesh, Ajmal, Soma and Dr Pankaj. I had gone to my husband’s house in May this year where Bhavesh made obscene advances on me. When I resisted, they all raped me through the night of May 15," says Usha.

Usha bears knife marks on her hands, thighs and breasts which testify the physical abuse. Usha said that she was later dumped on the Katkuva hill from where was saved by a lady mamlatdar who happened to pass by and took her to a hospital for medical treatment.

Usha has filed a police complaint in the Virpur police station of Kheda district. "The police has not taken any action and all of them are roaming free, posing a threat to her life", says Pratima Pandya of Kasturba Trust which will now file a complaint with the Adalaj police station.